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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaBRICK, Abraham Lincoln
(1860—1908)
BRICK, Abraham Lincoln, a Representative from Indiana; born on his father’s farm, near South Bend, St. Joseph County, Ind., May 27, 1860; attended the common schools and was graduated from the South Bend High School; later attended Cornell and Yale Colleges, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1883; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Ind.; prosecuting attorney for the counties of St. Joseph and La Porte in 1886; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his death in Indianapolis, Ind., April 7, 1908; interment in Riverview Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
Brick, Abraham Lincoln. Addresses and Speeches by Abraham Lincoln Brick
. Edited by his daughter. [Norwood, Mass.]: Priv. Print. [The Plimpton Press], 1938.
———. The letters of a father to his daughter
. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, [1940].
———. Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1900.
United States. 60th Congress, 2d session, 1908-1909. Abraham L. Brick (late a Representative from Indiana) Memorial addresses, Sixtieth Congress, Second session, House of Representatives, February 14, 1909, Senate of the United States, February 27, 1909. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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